as portraits go…
Comments(0) …I don’t think these came out that bad.
Petra was kind enough to stand in as a model for three (5 more applied but didn’t appear) high school seniors that came for the 4-5 hour intro studio photography and editing class. Other than running around, re-positioning the lights I (naturally) took some photos myself.
To be honest, I expected they’d have some prior knowledge about the basics of photography but as it turned out I had to make time for some exposure 101. You can imagine there’s only so much you can squeeze into a time frame we had. So I tried to be as clear and concise as possible with the exposure basics without going all quantum physics on them. I’m not entirely sure I succeeded though. I may have been carried away slightly… Afterall, these were 17-18 year old kids who could probably care less about physics (albeit simple enough) and just get on with shooting and hands-on training. I was caught a bit off-guard on that one but either way, I definitely have to rethink the approach if I’m ever doing anything similar again. If anything, I found out it’s not quite so easy to explain such basic stuff as relationship between shutter speed, F-stop and ISO, how/why DOF changes etc.
After we were done shooting (three rather simple two light + ambient setups) we tackled Photoshop. That was the easy bit though. I knew from previous experience that pretty much anyone can get a grasp of the basics in just an hour or two. From then on its just a matter of playing around and a lot of practice. There’s always google if any specific problems come up. And they can do that on their own.
